Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass - Heaven's Bluegrass Band - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jim & Jesse were an American bluegrass music duo composed of brothers Jim McReynolds and Jesse McReynolds.

In January 2026 The Elgar Society marks it's 75th anniversary, and SOMM Recordings celebrates the event with several Elgar releases in gratitude for the society's generous support and encouragement from 1998 to the present day. Light Out of Darkness, Choral Music by Elgar was recorded in February 2025, with the support of The Elgar Society, and continues the inspired journey of the composer's musical development in a series of widely acclaimed releases by SOMM. This present includes five world-premiere recordings.Light Out of Darkness features the Chapel Choir Of The Royal Hospital Chelsea conducted by their Music Director, the multiple prize-winning conductor and pianist William Vann. This follows their hugely successful first recording of Elgar's choral works for SOMM, The Reeds by Severn Side [SOMMCD 0278]. The featured organist is Callum Knox, an emerging talent from Australia.Edward Elgar (1857-1934) had an unorthodox musical education that turned out to be a fertile training ground for his evolution into one of the most important composers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He Inchlearned on the job,Inch so to speak, studying scores and instruction manuals in his father's music shop; assisting his father who played the organ at Worcester's St George's Church; and graduating to organist for St George's in 1885.From these early years come world-premiere recordings of the hymn Praise ye the Lord, 1878, and the first of Elgar's seven settings of Thomas Aquinas's O Salutaris Hostia composed c.1877. Two later versions-from c.1880 (dedicated InchTo my father - with affectionInch) and 1882-are also included here. This last is another world-premiere recording, as is Elgar's a cappella setting of the Stabat Mater from 1886. In 1888, now aged 31, Elgar composed the dignified Ecce sacerdos magnus (Behold a great priest) for a visit to St. George's by the newly installed

Since their 2000 formation in Kalamazoo, MI, the quintet-Anders Beck [dobro], Michael Arlen Bont [banjo], Dave Bruzza [guitar], Mike Devol [upright bass], and Paul Hoffman [mandolin]-have unassumingly progressed into a phenomenon on their own terms with the undying support of a devout audience. Throughout the years, they've earned critical acclaim from the likes of Billboard, Parade, NPR, and Rolling Stone, who hailed them as Inchrepresenting the genre for a whole new generation.Inch In celebration of the band's 25th anniversary, they will be releasing new versions of fan favorites from their celebrated catalog. Special guest artists will be featured on some of the tracks, beginning with InchCan't Stop Now (feat. Sam Bush).